Bilateral pericapsular end nerve blocks for steroid-induced avascular necrosis following COVID-19 infection requiring bilateral total hip replacement
Somita Christopher, Sweety Dutta, Thota Venkata Sanjeev Gopal, Department of Anaesthesiology, Care Hospitals, Hyderabad 500025, India
Author contributions: Christopher S and Dutta S designed and performed the research; Christopher S, Dutta S and Gopal TVS analysed the data and wrote the manuscript; All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by Institutional Ethics Committee Care Hospital, No. IEC/CARE/22048/2023/PB.
Informed consent statement: All study participants or their legal guardian provided written consent prior to study enrolment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflict-of-interest.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at somitachristopher@gmail.com. Participants gave informed consent for data sharing. No additional data are available.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE statement, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE statement.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Somita Christopher, MD, Doctor, Department of Anaesthesiology, Care Hospitals, Flat No. 504 B, Amsri Central Court, Near Lancer Lines, Hyderabad 500025, India. somitachristopher@gmail.com
Received: December 9, 2023
Peer-review started: December 9, 2023
First decision: December 23, 2023
Revised: January 5, 2024
Accepted: February 25, 2024
Article in press: February 25, 2024
Published online: March 11, 2024